Oh no… .

wheesht?

How’s that corpo boot taste? If you lick it real hard maybe you’ll get your own boots, but only if you lick real shiny.

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okchamp.

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you’re just be pedantic. The issue isn’t about it being “mostly”, it’s about if its a “men’s” thing. A 42/58 isn’t that wide of a gap to say that it’s one gender’s thing. As the difference could likely just be attributed to other cultural factors and not the thing itself.

If office workers were split 42/58, you wouldn’t call it a “man’s” job, even if technically there’s more men.

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eyyy there goes $140 million dollars just so the chuds could take their chud-to-be tax burden kids to gawk at the military propaganda while saying “whooooa look at da airpwane”

Softcore porn is still porn.

You’re just desensitized due to the modern internet and years of hard-core video pornography. What used to be hard-core porn 20 years ago is the standard average faire on every site today. And what used to be considered porn is “tasteful vanilla” now.

Playboy has always been a porn magazine. You just dont get off to it because you watch too much hard-core porn on the hub.

So, anyways, I dont feel bad being dismissed by a massive gooner.

literally was never the argument I was making… but okay. So long traveler.

my dude… 18 is the age we as a society generally agree on. That’s why it’s 18. We for the most part deem that’s when the average kid is mature enough to handle things and make decisions on their own without any oversight… That’s just where we drew the line at…

You are allowed to disagree. If you feel uncomfortable being compared to the other kinds of people who also disagree… that’s your moral problem to find peace with. Not mine.

lol, you can’t get any more le reddit, than misusing a logical fallacy in attempt to look smart.

That isn’t a slippery slope… slippery slope is, “if kids read spicy books, they’ll have unrealistic ideas about sex, and if htey have unrealistic ideas about sex then they’ll all become furries, and if they’re all furries then everyone will be gay and no one will have kids ever again…”

Taking your point and giving an example where it doesn’t hold isn’t a fallacy on my part. It’s a logical inconsistency that you’re demonstrating. That you’re too dumb to understand that isn’t my fault. If I were you, I would just shut it, quit while you’re behind and whatnot.

so… you want to argue that the age of maturity should be lower? You can argue that… sure, just saying though, it definitely puts you in leagues with a lot of other types that want to lower the age of maturity for all sorts of other reasons. You wanting to stand toe-to-toe with them on that?

You about to wax poetic about how “some kids are real mature for their age?”

So your argument is

“even though you’re the parent and responsible for the wellbeing and education of your child, you’re not allowed to set any kind of restrictions or boundaries. You must let your child do whatever they want, consume whatever they want… because they want to, and they will try to do it anyways so just let them”

that’s your position? Just… don’t parent at all?

I struggle to see how violence should be considered acceptable but sex shouldn’t be.

I think that’s a fair distinction to take issue with.

I don’t think that any one person should dictate what schools can or cannot have. It’s a collaborative decision. And I think that maybe if society puts more emphasis on limiting children’s exposure to violence like they do sexual content, that’s how a cultural change happens. And that’s all well and good. People having different views are fine, encouraged even. But getting mad that their fringe views aren’t immediately adopted by the majority… feels a lot like one person trying to dictate for the majority based on their personal views…

you’re kidding right?..

an anatomy book is a educational guide and reference for understanding human biology. It’s a textbook, explicitly and primarily written for learning… that’s quite a large step away from a fantasy erotica novel… just because they’re both books with dicks in them does not mean they’re both appropriate for kids.

Intention matters. Unless you’re an idiot, I guess?

Obviously school libraries - especially at the K-6 level - should have different guidelines than public libraries.

I mean, that’s literally what I’ve been arguing the whole time… but nope… people are like “you have to let kids read erotica!!! Stopping schools from giving smut to kids is wrong!!! parents who set boundaries are bad parents!!!”

I remember watching “Roots” in school, in 8th grade as part of our teacher’s material for the year. We did reports about it. Levar Burton acted his ass off for that film. Same teacher had us watch “Beloved” too. I grew up in a very rural area too.

Kid starts reading “Mein Kampf”, hey at least they’re reading!

Oh, they picked up “The Turner Diaries”, cool, that’s educational! Don’t wanna restrict or redirect at all… that would be bad parenting.

Stopping a child from reading inappropriate content for their age and without context? Practically ruins a child, right?